'Desert' Aisles

If you build it, they may not come to the produce section.

Poverty used to mean going hungry. These days--at least in the developed West, and especially in America--it means getting hungry, consuming loads of inexpensive carbohydrates, and becoming fat and unhealthy. It's progress of a sort, but those concerned with social uplift aren't wrong to see a problem here. But their assumptions about its cause and solution have been tested and found wanting.

As National Journal's Clara Ritger describes it:

With the obesity epidemic in full swing and millions of American [sic] living...